I have got the 6930G and its quite good.. once you remove all the $hite that was pre-installed
Just debating whether to remove Vista and put either W7 or ubuntu on it but that may wait until I have finished Baldurs Gate 2 & throne of bhaal
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| Author: | j17ypr [ Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | Laptop for Graphic design |
Hello everyone A mate of mine is looking for a laptop which he can do some graphic bits in his spare time while working away, he uses Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator CS3 etc.), Dreamweaver and other web packages. His brother in law recommended the Acer Aspire 6930G, but ive heard the warranties on Acer are pants, so i specced up a Dell Vostro 1720 with 3 yr NBD warranty, which came out about £100 more. Has anyone got any recommendations on either of these laptops, or an alternative? Both have NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS 512MB Graphics, will this be suitable? Thanks |
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| Author: | finlay666 [ Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:29 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Laptop for Graphic design |
Is it for work? If it is a personal warranty won't strictly apply and a business warranty may be needed Failing that buy it on an egg card or similar credit card, a lot of them provide additional warranty now on your purchases (so up to 2 years total) I was looking at the 6930g series and tbh Dell didn't come close, even a £500 Acer came on dell over £700, and they wouldn't haggle on price, best to wait for the Dell sale if you can |
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| Author: | bobbdobbs [ Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Laptop for Graphic design |
I have got the 6930G and its quite good.. once you remove all the $hite that was pre-installed Just debating whether to remove Vista and put either W7 or ubuntu on it but that may wait until I have finished Baldurs Gate 2 & throne of bhaal |
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| Author: | finlay666 [ Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:43 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Laptop for Graphic design | |||||||||
Which spec one did you get and how much/where from?  also...benchies!!
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| Author: | bobbdobbs [ Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Laptop for Graphic design |
spec: Intel Core 2 Duo T5800 (2.0GHz, 800MHz FSB, 2MB L2 Cache) 1x 2048MB and 1x 1024MB of Memory RAM 250GB 5400rpm Hard Disk Drive (split into 2 main partitions) + hidden restore partition 16" (HD 1366 x 768 resolution, high-brightness (220- cd/m2) Acer CineCrystal™ TFT LCD, 8 ms high-def response time, 16:9 aspect ratio) DVD Rewriter NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS - 256MB VRAM Dolby®5-certified surround sound system with two built-in stereo speakers and one subwoofer supporting low-frequency effects 5-in-1 card reader (SD//MS/MS-Pro/MMC/xD-Picture card™) £520 in feb from CCL as for benchies youll have to wait untill i get home  Though it plays Civ 4, Baldurs gate and Football Manager 2009 and Counterstrike:Source all perfectly well. |
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| Author: | j17ypr [ Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Laptop for Graphic design |
no its a personal one, that he wants to do some bits on outside of work. What are the warranties like on Acer? |
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| Author: | bobbdobbs [ Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:57 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Laptop for Graphic design | |||||||||
laptops have a standard 1 years international warranty but you have to remember to activate it and you can extend it upto 3 yrs. As for if its worthwhile, so far I have had no problems that require trying it out You would have to be careful about claiming on a personal warrenty to make sure you dont ever mention you were doing anything professional/work related or thats a nice excuse not to pay out. |
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| Author: | bobbdobbs [ Mon Jul 20, 2009 7:58 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Benchies PCmark2005 4458 3Dmark06 1832 so not blisteringly fast
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| Author: | big_D [ Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Laptop for Graphic design |
If you are doing graphic work, then you should be using a calibrated screen... That doesn't come cheap though! They tend to make Macs look cheap.  Are the outputs going to be used professionally or just for fun? If the output is going to be used professionally, then the screen should be calibrated. You can buy a calibration tool, which would be cheaper than a couple of grand on a Lenovo with a quality screen and built-in screen calibration tool, but will still add a hundred or so to the price; and results may vary, on my old machine with cheap monitors, even after calibration, one of them couldn't display grey scales or other colour gradations clearly - I worked on one website with a grey gradient for 3 weeks, before somebody looked at it on another machine and asked why the gradient wasn't there. I showed them my display and said "what gradient!" |
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| Author: | ProfessorF [ Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Laptop for Graphic design |
Also worth thinking about how you're going to maintain your colour profiles throughout the process, not just calibrating the screen, but matching it to the output. |
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| Author: | big_D [ Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:56 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Laptop for Graphic design |
Agreed, but Vista supports colour profiles and Adobe CS3 and 4 bring their own along for good measure ISTR. |
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| Author: | dogbert10 [ Tue Jul 21, 2009 2:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Laptop for Graphic design |
If you want to see how good laptop GPUs are, there's a good list here |
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| Author: | big_D [ Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:50 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Laptop for Graphic design | |||||||||
The link only does 3Dmark, which is a pretty useless indicator for professional graphics. The Quadros generate very poor 3D mark results, but have vastly superior performance and stability with pro apps running openGL... |
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| Author: | j17ypr [ Wed Jul 22, 2009 9:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Laptop for Graphic design |
thanks for the responses guys, so the general feeling is that the Acer would be ok? Or if I could find a laptop with the Quadro graphics that would be better? Just looking though, and you can get a macbook for around £750, would that be a better option? I know he used macs at his last job. Ta |
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